If you go onto your user profile page, and scroll all the way to the right, there is a section called “reputation”.

What is it, and how does it work?

Is it like the “karma” system that Reddit uses?

  • FLOSSeveryday@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    @techno156 I’m glad you asked this. I wasn’t sure how this worked either. Good to know it’s boosts and downvotes. I wonder what the logic was behind that. I guess receiving a boost is a stronger indication of quality content, but I dont feel that upvotes should be ignored in that calculation

    • vaguerant@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      I saw in another comment that it’s because of a last minute change for Lemmy compatibility. Apparently, /kbin originally used boosts as its upvote system, but this was changed so that kbin/Lemmy would communicate upvotes in the same way. Some of the /kbin interface is still set up to use boosts instead of upvotes. Since it doesn’t break anything other than hearts fixing it is probably a low priority for now.